I made mine in The Eagle-Tribune today. I say, as the fans chanted on the field after the Game 4 clincher in Denver, “Don’t sign A-Rod!”
A few years ago, it was different. The Red Sox, it could have been argued, needed a guy like A-Rod to get the Red Sox over the top.
In my mind, [...]
I have a column in Thursday’s Eagle-Tribune Publishing Co. newspapers on the Sox hitters and how they are pestering the competition.
The word I use is torture, but you get the picture.
Here are the pitchers, pitch counts and innings pitched for the playoffs so far:
John Lackey, 99 in 6 inning
Kelvim Escobar, 101 in 5 innings
Jered Weaver, [...]
I will be at the park around 5 p.m. and will try to capture some of the pregame noise and chatter on the field.
If you have any questions, I will answer during the game.
Here is the pregame schedule:
5:40-6:40 p.m.—Red Sox Batting Practice
6:40-7:30 p.m.—Rockies Batting Practice
8:12 p.m.—Player Introductions
8:18 p.m.—National Anthem: John Williams conducts the Boston Pops
8:24 [...]
This is not an easy series to pick.
You just don’t know how good the Colorado Rockies really are other than being the hottest playoff team in history.
I do know this. They are loaded with youth and they can hit. Josh Beckett, tonight’s starter, was right. They are like an American League lineup.
Here’s what I see [...]
It is about an hour before the first pitch and playoff baseball is in the air.
A few signts and sounds:
I chatted with local Cleveland weatherman Mark Johnson was doing his forecast from the field before the game.
For a while it appeared everything was in place for The Return of the Midges, those pesky bugs that [...]
Forget about the previous post. It couldn’t be better out, though yesterday was even clearer.
Anyway, weather will not be a factor tonight.
I am heading to the park in about an hour.
I will be blogging in with sights and sounds.
If you have any questions, now is the time to ask.
While the game is eight hours away, it is raining (lightly).
Weather reports are three more hours of rain before most of it goes away. There will be some overcast clouds, but there will be only a 10 percent chance of rain throughout the game.
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There is a rather humorous story related to tonight’s national anthem.
It will [...]
Before I get into some of the scenery a little more than eight hours before tonight’s first pitch, I’ll give you my thoughts on what will happen in Game 5:
I believe the Indians will win. I believe it will be a very close game tonight. I believe the Sox will play better than they did [...]
This probably will not surprise you:
The Red Sox are tight. The Cleveland Indians are not.
Several Red Sox were given the day off (David Ortiz, Dice-K, Julio Lugo and Coco Crisp to name a few of the biggies) and few others were not in a talking mood, especially J.D. Drew, who was nowhere to be found [...]
It wasn’t the sight that 100 or so media members wanted to see, but the Red Sox clubhouse was near empty for the 30-minute interval set aside for media access before tonight’s game.
During the playoffs, there is no media access in the clubhouse before a game. But that rule was lifted because everything, especially batting [...]
Eagle-Tribune Executive Sports Editor Bill Burt has been synonymous with the local and Boston sports scene for the past 24 years.
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